insulted - Story 75427 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

"Oh, come on," Ben grumbled, reading the invitation. A smile flickered across his face. A false, tight smile. He tossed the invitation in the recycling bin.

He pictured them all now: the homecoming queen, the star quarterback, the popular kids. He could already hear the stories, the boasts, the subtle, not-so-subtle digs. He couldn't go through that.

He went back to work. He tried to think of work. But his mind kept drifting back to the people who'd once been so important.

Emotion: insulted

Cluster: Anger / Hostility

PC1 (Valence): -0.98 Negative

PC2 (Disposition): 1.46

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion insulted. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 insulted stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the insulted emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the insulted vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`l`	0.354
`骂`	0.277
`愤`	0.267
`C`	0.237
`🤬`	0.233

Suppressed:

`own`	-0.325
`давно`	-0.229
`adventurous`	-0.223
`soon`	-0.219
`optimistic`	-0.217